Conor Rafferty > Conor's Quotes

“Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September

“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.”
― Anaïs Nin

“We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.”
― Vic Johnson, Day by Day with James Allen

“A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.”
― Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko

“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
― Yogi Berra

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater